Racial Differences In Suicidal Ideation Among Adolescents

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Among the several peer-reviewed articles available in the internet, I read the racial differences in suicidal ideation among school going adolescents. You can the article by clicking the url below:

Racial differences in suicidal ideation among school going adolescents Kumar S, Dixit V, Chaudhury S, Kenswar D K - Ind Psychiatry J

The target of the study is to assess the adolescents who were attending schools, private or public, tribal or nontribal (whether they belong to a certain tribe or not), their suicidal ideation and its relationships with psychological well-being, depression, and anxiety.

One threat to validity or reliability that I saw after reading the article was the possibility of human error in injecting an incorrect data to

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